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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92 [1] – after 19 May 1559 [2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.
While some sources claim the rising sun of the earlier proposals was thought to resemble the Japanese flag and was therefore changed to the present star, other sources (including official state documents) cite the Spanish flag and the influence of early Arizona explorers, such as Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado ...
Cabeza de Vaca may have encountered the Jumano in 1535 near La Junta, the junction of the Conchos River and Rio Grande at Presidio, Texas. He describes his visit to the "people of the cows" in one of the towns, but these may have been the settled Indians of La Junta. They were people "with the best bodies that we saw and the greatest liveliness."
From 1527, Cabeza de Vaca subsisted for seven years among the coastal tribes, making a living as a medical practitioner and occasional trader. [6] During his stay, de Vaca reported that a fatal stomach ailment reduced the Karankawa population by roughly one half; the nature and casualties resulting from this illness are unknown. [27]
Only four men, Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, and an enslaved Moroccan Berber named Estevanico, survived and escaped to reach Mexico City. In 1539, Estevanico was one of four men who accompanied Marcos de Niza as a guide in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, preceding Coronado. When the ...
Flags in Iguaçu National Park. In 1549, a Spanish explorer, Cabeza de Vaca, found the falls while travelling down the river. Very impressed, he named them "Quedas de Santa Maria". Later the name changed to Quedas del Iguazú; which was derived from the native name of the local Guarani Indians. [6]
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer. Cabeza de Vaca may also refer to: Cabeza de Vaca, a 1991 Mexican film; Cabeza de Vaca, Tumbes, a Peruvian archaeological site; Diego Cabeza de Vaca (d. 1625), Spanish Roman Catholic prelate; Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca (b. 1967), Mexican politician; Francisco Vera Cabeza de Vaca ...
Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died after 1547) was an early Spanish explorer in the Americas.He was one of the last four survivors of the original members of the 1527 Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza and his African slave Estevanico.